I’ve had a lot of people email and message me asking me what I’m doing with the Raspberry Pi and I wanted to share before the actual RMOUG Quarterly Education Workshop, (QEW) this Friday at Elitches. So a little history- When I was a kid, I was a real handful. My mother used to come into my room and I’d have created “webs” out of yarn strung from every piece of furniture and twisted into patterns. I used to take apart radios and use the parts to create new toys, figuring out how the electronics worked. Dolls suddenly became cyborgs…
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Back in 2002, as a Junior DBA, I was informed by the senior DBAs I worked with that I MUST become part of my regional user group, (RMOUG). This was considered a requirement for any educated Database Administrator or Developer of the time and as those who I respected instructed, I became a member and attended my first Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group Training Days in February, 2003. I was impressed with the level of technical content of the sessions, the opportunity to network with others in my local Oracle community and that I was able to take the new…
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I’m glad to be home after a couple weeks in Europe, speaking at both the Harmony 15 conference in beautiful Tallinn, Estonia and then as a keynote speaker at AOUG in lovely Vienna, Austria the week after. I get to pretty much stay close to home for the next two months, traveling only a bit, but I want to go over the upcoming conferences that I’ll be speaking at the next couple months. July 23rd, 2015, Georgia Oracle User Group’s Quarterly Tech Symposium I’ll be speaking, along with my peer, Loc Nhan at the event. I’m looking forward to seeing…
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Here’s a quick guide to my schedule of sessions at IOUG Collaborate 2015 for this year. I’m looking forward to seeing everyone next week, (I’ll be arriving on Saturday, so I really should say in a couple days) and have no doubt we’re up for another phenomenal conference at Las Vegas, this year at the Mandalay! Additionally, there are some great opportunities in professional development at the IOUG Strategic Leadership Program. I’ll be speaking with James Lui on how to improve your value with personal brands and social media. I’m the WIT luncheon speaker on Monday, so for those of you that…
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Just over a year ago, it became public that I was leaving Enkitec for Oracle. Most folks had similar questions surrounding my decision, including my logic in giving up my ACE Director, an assumption that I would just disappear into the Oracle “machine”, considering the sheer size of the company and with my prominent company work history, what had prompted the decision. In this last year, my career has definitely surprised more than a few folks. I, in no way, disappeared into Oracle. In fact, I’ve been made more prominent and in doing so, assisted in shining a light on the…
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I’m at HotSos Symposium 2015 speaking this week, so thought I would blog about the results of the conference I’m the director of and that finished up just two weeks ago. I’m not admitting to being overwhelmed by OEM questions here, as I’m rather enjoying it. I love seeing folks so into Enterprise Manager and look forward to more! Keep the ideas for more blog posts coming! I’ll write on all these great topics in upcoming posts. Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group, (RMOUG) Training Days 2015 is over for another year, but the conference is a task that encompasses approximately…
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I’ve been running the Women in Technology, (WIT) at RMOUG, which I first started planning out in 2011, which has grown to include other user groups and even countries as its grown. The last couple years, I’ve worked to try to add a WIT scholarship to RMOUG’s, but it wasn’t always easy to convince others that we should provide one when you are asking to choose one group over another. There’s only so much money to go around and so many initiatives that we need to address each year for the Oracle community. For 2015, we had a unique candidate…
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I’ve just returned from my honeymoon in Venice with the wonderful Tim Gorman, but before we enjoyed our week in this picturesque city, we spent a week doing joint keynotes and two sessions each on our own tech topics at these two incredible conferences in neighboring countries. SIOUG, (Slovenia Oracle User Group) in Ljubljana, Slovenia held their 2014 conference Oct. 13th-14th at the Plaza Hotel. Tim and I did a joint keynote, “Assumptions, the Death of First Dates and Tech Projects Around the World” which was great fun, as it’s loaded with a number of Pulp Fiction stills that transcends…
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We are deep into RMOUG’s abstract submissions and reviews, preparing for the following: Oct. 2nd- Close of Abstract Submissions Oct. 6th- Close of Abstract Reviews Oct. 10th- Schedule up for 2015 Training Days With this weighing so heavily on my mind, I felt it might be a good time to put down on paper why I’m so proud of how RMOUG does it’s reviews and why this conference has such a great lineup. This not only should tell you why you should submit or attend, but if you are considering submitting an abstract, it can help you submit a better…
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As much as KSCOPE 14 fixed any and all Low-T levels, it couldn’t do anything for our the WiFi problems we were experiencing back in May. I’ve been a telecommuter for almost 4 straight years now and was quite frustrated when our WiFi service became dismal back then. We called Comcast service and worked through trouble-shooting with their support multiple times, only afterward, still unable to download files or watch Netflix into the first three weeks of June. Tim purchased a new modem after Comcast confirmed our model was at “end of support” and yet, still no improvement. After more…
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I’m still asked this question, as I’ve worked for some really fantastic companies in the past and the idea that I “gave up” my Oracle ACE Director and my voting board position at RMOUG seems a high price to pay when I could have gone anywhere. I do appreciate it, as many just want what’s best for me, so I do take this into consideration. I decided a while back that with all Enterprise Manager Cloud Control encompassed, that it was what I really wanted to specialize in. I spent time reading everything I could get my hands on, talked…
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I’m in the midst of transferring over to my travel laptop to run all my VMs on and retiring my previous ASUS work laptop to my youngest son. I was surprised to find out that not ALL laptops are set up to run virtual environments these days. 1. Virtualization may not be enabled in the BIOS, (i.e. On-Boot UEFI in the Lenovo Yoga 11s.) Once this is enabled, save the configuration and reboot, allowing you to now run a VM on your laptop. If you are importing appliances, make sure you have set the location to import the disks to the…
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The ACE Director briefings are done and now we are onto Sunday sessions. I’ve already had a couple meetings with folks today and wondering why I didn’t wear flats at 2pm in the afternoon, but there are the important necessities that must be taken care of, like when am I speaking this week, so here’s the schedule: My Oracle Open World Schedule My Oak Table Schedule If you want to meet up to chat, best to hit me up on Twitter @DBAKevlar and loving Oracle Open World 2013 already!
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I returned home last night after a week in the great city of New Orleans for ODTUG’s KSCOPE 2013. We arrived last Thursday, Tim is a director on the board, so were picked up from the airport in grand fashion and were delivered to our lovely suite at the hotel- ODTUG making sure we were all well cared for. This is one of three conferences that Enkitec has a booth at. I am very fortunate to work for a supportive company that includes RMOUG in that list, but know that KSCOPE, a very developer oriented conference is one of those…
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As many of you know, the WIT Session at RMOUG and subsequent planning for a WIT program has been very successful. I just received my evaluations, as this was offered just like any technical session. There was a wonderfully, honest comment that I hope the author will not mind me sharing anonymously and I hope my response will help her in return. “to be honest, if I could [do] it all over again, I wouldn’t be a DBA. I have a degree in CIS, computers were the in thing when I was in college. I chose CIS for the money…
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How many computers are in your home? After a quick search on the web, I found that the average number of computers in the American home has increased from 2009’s numbers of 75% having 1-2 computers to 86% having two or more for 2012. I believe portable devices such as smart phones and tablets have kept it down to that amount vs. each individual in the home demanding one each. I live in a techie family. Yes, just counting me, I am the proud owner of two laptops, a client laptop, a tablet and a smart phone. Each of the…
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A couple folks have emailed me, looking for my slides from Oracle Open World. Both presentations can be viewed here at Enktiec’s website, along with all my great coworker’s presentations, as well. If you are still looking for my interview with Oracle Technology Network on contributing to the Oracle community and User group involvement, that can be found here. I’m thoroughly busy right now with KSCOPE database track abstract selection, the RMOUG Training Days planning and abstract selection and finishing up the chapters along with my wonderful co-authors on the EM12c book for Apress. I’m really proud of this collaboration…
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Yes, still catching up on Blog posts… 🙂 Monday is the official start of Oracle Open World. I planned to be onsite at the Enkitec booth from the time the exhibitors hall opened and I was a few minutes early. I hadn’t received an exhibitors ribbon, (one of the few missing from my extended display from my badge…) and so I waited patiently and chatted with a couple of folks who had attended one of my sessions the day before. Upon entering the exhibition hall, you realize why vendors flock to this conference in hopes of promoting their company. The…